Publications
Blodgett JM, Ahmadi MN, Atkin AJ, Pulsford RM, Rangul V, Chastin S, Chan HW, Suorsa K, Bakker EA, Gupta N, Hettiarachchi P, Johansson PJ, Sherar LB, Del Pozo Cruz B, Koemel N, Mishra GD, Eijsvogels TMH, Stenholm S, Hughes AD, Teixeira-Pinto A, Ekelund U, Lee IM, Holtermann A, Koster A, Stamatakis E, Hamer M; ProPASS Collaboration. Device-Measured 24-Hour Movement Behaviors and Blood Pressure: A 6-Part Compositional Individual Participant Data Analysis in the ProPASS Consortium. Circulation 2024
Norha J, Suorsa K, Heinonen OJ, Niiranen T, Kalliokoski KK, Heinonen IHA, Stenholm S. Associations between leisure and work time activity behavior and 24 h ambulatory blood pressure among aging workers. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2024
Pasanen S, Halonen JI, Suorsa K, Leskinen T, Gonzales-Inca C, Kestens Y, Thierry B, Pentti J, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. Exposure to usable green space and physical activity during active travel: A longitudinal GPS and accelerometer study before and after retirement. Health Place 2024
Ahmadi MN, Blodgett JM, Atkin AJ, Chan HW, Del Pozo Cruz B, Suorsa K, Bakker EA, Pulsford RM, Mielke GI, Johansson PJ, Hettiarachchi P, Thijssen DHJ, Stenholm S, Mishra GD, Teixeira-Pinot A, Rangul V, Sherar LB, Ekelund U, Hughes AD, Lee IM, Holtermann A, Koster A, Hamer M, Stamatakis E; ProPASS collaboration. Relationship of device measured physical activity type and posture with cardiometabolic health markers: pooled dose-response associations from the Prospective Physical Activity, Sitting and Sleep Consortium. Diabetologia 2024
Fröberg A, Sacco A, Suorsa K, Leskinen T, Hettiarachchi P, Svartengren M, Stenholm S, Westerlund H. Changes in accelerometer measured physical activity and sedentary time across retirement transition as a predictor of self-rated health. J Phys Act Health 2024
Kontturi M, Virtanen M, Myllyntausta S, KC P, Pentti J, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. Are changes in sleep problems associated with changes in life satisfaction during the retirement transition? Eur J Ageing 2024
Virkkunen V, Kero K, Koivisto M, Niiranen T, Heinonen O, Stenholm S, Polo-Kantola P. Associations between Arterial Health and Sexual Function in Women Aged 60-64 Years. Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand 2024
Suorsa K, Leskinen T, Gupta N, Andersen LL, Pasanen J, Hettiarachchi P, Johansson PJ, Pentti J, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. Longitudinal associations between 24-h movement behaviors and cardiometabolic biomarkers: natural experiment over retirement. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2024
Kontturi M, KC P, Ervasti J, Pentti J, Myllyntausta S, Karkkola P, Honkalampi K, Vahtera J, Stenholm S, Virtanen M. Do Sleep Problems Explain the Association Between Work Stress and the Trajectories of Work Ability From Midlife to Pensionable Age? J Occup Environ Med 2023
Stenholm S, Suorsa K, Leskinen T, Myllyntausta S, Pulakka A, Pentti J, Vahtera J. Cohort Profile: Finnish Retirement and Aging study (FIREA), a prospective cohort study. BMJ Open 2023
Lintuaho R, Saltychev M, Pentti J, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. Concurrent changes in physical activity and physical functioning during retirement transition – a multi-trajectory analysis. PLoS One 2023
Ahmadi MN, Blodgett JM, Atkin AJ, Chan H-W, del Pozo Cruz B, Suorsa K, Bakker EA, Pulsford RM, Mielke GI, Johansson PJ, Hettiarachchi P, Eijsvogels TMH, Stenholm S, Mishra GD, Teixeira-Pinot A, Rangul V, Sherar LB, Ekelund U, Hughes AD, Lee I-M, Holtermann A, Koster A, Hamer M, Stamatakis E. Device measured sleep, sedentary behaviour, standing, light and moderate-vigorous physical activity and cardio-metabolic health: A compositional individual participant data analysis in the ProPASS consortium. Eur Heart J 2023
Lintuaho R, Saltychev M, Pentti J, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. Physical activity and self-rated health during retirement transition – a multi-trajectory analysis of concurrent changes among public sector employees. BMJ Open 2023
Teräs T, Myllyntausta S, Salminen M, Viikari L, Pahkala K, Muranen O, Hutri-Kähönen N, Raitakari O, Rovio S*, Stenholm S*. The association of previous night’s sleep duration with cognitive function among older adults: a pooled analysis of three Finnish cohorts. Eur J Ageing 2023
Suorsa K, Gupta N, Leskinen T, Andersen LL, Pasanen J, Hettiarachchi P, Johansson PJ, Pentti J, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. Modifications of 24-h movement behaviors to prevent obesity in retirement: A natural experiment using compositional data analysis. Int J Obes. 2023
Löppönen A, Delecluse C, Suorsa K, Karavirta L, Leskinen T, Meulemans L, Portegijs E, Finni T, Rantanen T, Stenholm S, Rantalainen T, Van Roie E. Association of sit-to-stand capacity and free-living performance using thigh-worn accelerometers among 60-90-year-old adults. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2023
Myllyntausta S, Pulakka A, Pentti J, Vahtera J, Virtanen M & Stenholm S. Association of working hours with accelerometer-based sleep duration and sleep quality on the following night among older employees. Sleep Epidemiology 2023
Pasanen S, Halonen J I, Suorsa K, Leskinen T, Kestens Y, Thierry B, Pentti J, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. Does work-related and commuting physical activity predict changes in physical activity and sedentary behavior during the transition to retirement? GPS and accelerometer study. Health Place 2023
Tuominen M, Koski P, Axelin A, Stenholm S, Leskinen T. Acceptable, useful, and ineffective? Recent retirees’ experiences of a 12-month activity tracker-based physical activity intervention. Digit Health 2023
Karelius S, Vahtera J, Suorsa K, Heinonen OJ, Pentti J, Niiranen T, Stenholm S. Changes in Ambulatory Blood Pressure during the Transition to Retirement. J Hypertens. 2023
Lintuaho R, Saltychev M, Pentti J, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. Multi-trajectory analysis of changes in physical activity and body mass index in relation to retirement: Finnish Retirement and Aging study. PLoS One 2022
Tuominen M, Stenholm S, Koski P, Leskinen T. Meanings Attributed to Physical Activity and Changes in Self-Reported and Accelerometer-Measured Physical Activity among Recent Retirees. Int J Environ Health Res 2022
Prakash KC, Virtanen M, Törmälehto S, Myllyntausta S, Pentti J, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. Changes in life satisfaction during the transition to retirement: Findings from the FIREA cohort study. Eur J Ageing 2022
Suorsa K, Leskinen T, Pasanen J, Pulakka A, Myllyntausta S, Pentti J, Chastin S, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. Changes in the 24-hour movement behaviors during the transition to retirement: compositional data analysis. Int. J. Behav. Nutr. Phys. 2022
Suorsa K*, Mattila VM*, Leskinen T, Heinonen OJ, Pentti J, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. Work ability and physical fitness among aging workers: the Finnish Retirement and Aging Study. Eur J Ageing 2022
Pasanen J.*, Leskinen T.*, Pulakka A., Virta J., Auranen K., Stenholm S. Effects of physical activity intervention on 24-h movement behaviors: a compositional data analysis. Scientific Reports 2022
Myllyntausta S, Kronholm E, Pulakka A, Pentti J, Virtanen M, Stenholm S. Associations of Sleep and Individual Characteristics with Accelerometer-Measured Catch-Up Sleep among Older Employees. Sleep Epidemiology 2022
Pasanen, S., Halonen, J.I., Gonzales-Inca, C., Pentti, J., Vahtera, J., Kestens, Y., Thierry, B., Brondeel, R., Leskinen, T., Stenholm, S., 2022. Changes in physical activity by context and residential greenness among recent retirees: Longitudinal GPS and accelerometer study. Health Place 2022
Myllyntausta S, Virtanen M, Pentti J, Kivimäki M, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. Why do men extend their employment beyond pensionable age more often than women? A cohort study. Eur J Ageing 2021
Virtanen M, Myllyntausta S, Kauppi M, Kivimäki M, Pentti J, Ervasti J, KC P, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. Trajectories of Worktime Control from Midlife to Retirement and Working Beyond Retirement Age. Work, Aging and Retirement 2021
Karelius S, Vahtera J, Heinonen OJ, Niiranen T, Stenholm S. Association between life stressors and arterial stiffness: The Finnish Retirement and Aging study. Artery Research 2021
Virtanen M, Myllyntausta S, Karkkola P, Pentti J, Ropponen A, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. Components of Stress and Their Associations with Sleep Problems: A Cohort Study of Older Employees. J Occup Environ Med 2021
Agahi N, Morin L, Virtanen M, Pentti J, Fritzell J, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. Heavy alcohol consumption before and after negative life events in late mid-life: Longitudinal latent trajectory analyses. J Epidemiol Community Health 2021
KC Prakash, Virtanen M, Kivimäki M, Ervasti J, Pentti J, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. Trajectories of work ability from midlife to pensionable age and their association with retirement timing. J Epidemiol Comm Health 2021
Leskinen T, Suorsa K., Heinonen I, Löyttyniemi E, Pentti J, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. The effect of commercial activity tracker based physical activity intervention on body composition and cardiometabolic health among recent retirees. Front. Aging 2021
Myllyntausta S, Kronholm E, Pulakka A, Pentti J, Vahtera J, Virtanen M, Stenholm S. Association of job strain with accelerometer-based sleep duration and timing of sleep among older employees. Journal of Sleep Research 2021
Tuominen M, Suorsa K, Pentti J, Koski P, Stenholm S, Leskinen T. The Impact of a 12-Month Activity Tracker Intervention on Activity Behavior Across Body Mass Index Subgroups Among Recent Retirees: Post Hoc Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial. J Phys Act Health 2021
Suorsa K, Leskinen T, Pulakka A, Pentti J, Löyttyniemi E, Heinonen I, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. The effect of a consumer-based activity tracker intervention on accelerometer-measured sedentary time among retirees: a randomized controlled REACT trial. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2021
Lahdenperä M, Virtanen M, Myllyntausta S, Pentti J, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. Psychological distress during retirement transition and the role of psychosocial working conditions and social living environment. J Gerontol Soc Sci 2021
Pasanen S, Halonen JI, Pulakka A, Kestens Y, Thierry B, Brondeel R, Pentti J, Vahtera J, Leskinen T, Stenholm S. Contexts of sedentary time and physical activity among ageing workers and recent retirees: cross-sectional GPS and accelerometer study. BMJ Open 2021
Leskinen T, Suorsa K, Tuominen M, Pulakka A, Pentti J, Löyttyniemi E, Heinonen I, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. The effect of consumer-based activity tracker intervention on physical activity among recent retirees – an RCT study. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise 2021
Kauppi M, Virtanen M, Pentti J, Aalto V, Oksanen T, Kivimäki M, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. Social network ties before and after retirement: a cohort study. Online ahead of print. Eur J Ageing 2021
Kauppi M, KC P, Virtanen M, Pentti J, Aalto V, Oksanen T, Kivimäki M, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. Social relationships as predictors of extended employment beyond the pensionable age: a cohort study. Online ahead of print. Eur J Ageing 2021
Prakash KC, Virtanen M, Pentti J, Kivimäki M, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. Does working beyond the statutory retirement age have an impact on health and functional capacity? The Finnish Retirement and Aging cohort study. Occup Environ Med 2020
Virtanen M, Myllyntausta S, Ervasti J, Oksanen T, Salo P, Pentti J, Kivimäki M, Ropponen A, Halonen JI, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. Shift work, work time control, and informal caregiving as risk factors for sleep disturbances in an ageing workforce. Scand J Work Environ Health 2020
Suorsa K, Pulakka A, Leskinen A, Pentti J, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. Changes in prolonged sedentary behavior across the transition to retirement. Occup Environ Med. 2020
Stenholm S, Pulakka A, Leskinen T, Pentti J, Heinonen OJ, Koster A, Vahtera J. Daily physical activity patterns and their association with health-related physical fitness among aging workers – the Finnish Retirement and Aging study. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2020
Halonen JI, Pulakka A, Pentti J, Kallio M, Koskela S, Kivimäki M, Kawachi I, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. Cross-sectional associations of neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage and greenness with accelerometer measured leisure-time physical activity in a cohort of aging workers. BMJ Open 2020
Suorsa K*, Pulakka A*, Leskinen T, Pentti J, Holtermann A, Heinonen OJ, Sunikka J, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. Comparison of sedentary time between thigh-worn and wrist-worn accelerometers. J Measurement of Phys Behav 2020
Pulakka A, Leskinen T, Suorsa K, Pentti J, Halonen JI, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. Physical activity across retirement transition by occupation and mode of commute. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2020
Leskinen T, Stenholm S, Pulakka A, Pentti J, Kivimäki M, Vahtera J. Comparison between recent and long-term physical activity levels as predictors of cardiometabolic risk. A cohort study. BMJ Open 2020
Myllyntausta S, Pulakka A, Salo P, Kronholm E, Pentti J, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. Changes in Accelerometer-Measured Sleep during the Transition to Retirement: The Finnish Retirement and Aging (FIREA) study. Sleep 2020
Stenholm S, Virtanen M, Pentti J, Oksanen T, Kivimäki M, Vahtera J. Trajectories of self-rated health before and after retirement: Evidence from two cohort studies. Occup Environ Med. 2020
Karelius S, Vahtera J, Pentti J, Lindroos AS, Jousilahti P, Heinonen OJ, Stenholm S*, Niiranen TJ*. The Relation of Work-Related Factors with Ambulatory Blood Pressure and Nocturnal Blood Pressure Dipping among Aging Workers. Occup Environ Health 2019
Leskinen T, Suorsa K, Pulakka A, Stenholm S. Eläke lisää liikettä – joksikin aikaa. Liikunta & Tiede 2019; 4: 43-45. Liikunta & Tiede -lehti
Stenholm S, Leskinen T, Viikari L. Eläköityvien terveyden edistämiseen kannattaa panostaa. Lääketieteellinen Aikakauskirja Duodecim 2019
Alhainen M, Myllyntausta S, Pentti J, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. Concurrent changes in sleep and physical activity during the transition to retirement: a prospective cohort study. Sleep Medicine 2019
Teräs T, Rovio S, Spira AP, Myllyntausta S, Pulakka A, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. Associations of accelerometer-based sleep duration and self-reported sleep difficulties with cognitive function in late mid-life: The Finnish Retirement and Aging Study. Sleep Medicine 2019
Suorsa K, Pulakka A, Leskinen T, Heinonen I, Heinonen OJ, Pentti J, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. Objectively measured sedentary time before and after transition to retirement: The Finnish Retirement and Aging Study (FIREA). J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2019
Myllyntausta S, Salo P, Pentti J, Oksanen T, Kivimäki M, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. Does Removal of Work Stress Explain Improved Sleep Following Retirement? The Finnish Retirement and Aging (FIREA) study. Sleep 2019
Pulakka A, Leskinen T, Koster A, Pentti J, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. Daily physical activity patterns among aging workers: the Finnish Retirement and Aging Study (FIREA). Occup Environ Med 2019
Pulakka A, Halonen JI, Pentti J, Kivimäki M, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. Changes in smoking during retirement transition: A longitudinal cohort study. Scand J Public Health 2018
Leskinen T, Pulakka A, Heinonen OJ, Pentti J, Kivimäki M, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. Changes in non-occupational sedentary behaviours across the retirement transition: the Finnish Retirement and Aging (FIREA) study. J Epidemiol Community Health 2018
Pulakka A, Shiroma EJ, Harris TB, Pentti J, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. Classification and processing of 24-hour wrist accelerometer data. Journal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour 2018
Pulakka A, Stenholm S, Bosma H, Schaper NC, Savelberg HHCM, Stehouwer CDA, van der Kallen CJH, Dagnelie PC, Sep SJS, Koster A. Association Between Employment Status and Objectively Measured Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior-The Maastricht Study. J Occup Environ Med 2018
Leskinen T, Stenholm S, Aalto V, Head J, Kivimäki M, Vahtera J. Physical activity level as a predictor of healthy and chronic disease-free life expectancy between ages 50 and 75. Age and Ageing 2018
Leskinen T, Stenholm S, Heinonen OJ, Pulakka A, Aalto V, Kivimäki M, Vahtera J. Change in physical activity and accumulation of cardiometabolic risk factors. Prev Med 2018
Stenholm S, Head J, Kivimäki M, Magnusson Hanson LL, Pentti J, Rod NH, Clark AC, Oksanen T, Westerlund H, Vahtera J. Sleep duration and sleep disturbances as predictors of healthy and chronic disease-free life expectancy between ages 50 and 75: a pooled analysis of three cohorts. J Gerontol Med Sci. 2018
Myllyntausta S, Salo P, Kronholm E, Pentti J, Kivimäki M, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. Changes in Sleep Difficulties During the Transition to Statutory Retirement. Sleep 2018
Stenholm S, Solovieva S, Viikari-Juntura E, Aalto V, Kivimäki M, Vahtera J. Change in body mass index during transition to statutory retirement: an occupational cohort study. Int J Beh Nutr Phys Act 2017
Virtanen M, Oksanen T, Pentti J, Ervasti J, Head J, Stenholm S, Vahtera J, Kivimäki M. Occupational class and working beyond the retirement age: a cohort study. Scand J Work Environ Health 2017
Myllyntausta S, Salo P, Kronholm E, Aalto V, Kivimäki M, Vahtera J, Stenholm S. Changes in sleep duration during transition to statutory retirement: A longitudinal cohort study. Sleep 2017
Halonen JI, Stenholm S, Pulakka A, Kawachi I, Aalto V, Pentti J, Lallukka T, Virtanen M, Vahtera J, Kivimäki M. Trajectories of risky drinking around the time of statutory retirement: a longitudinal latent class analysis.
Stenholm S, Head J, Aalto V, Kivimäki M, Kawachi I, Zins M, Goldberg M, Platts LG, Zaninotto P, Magnusson Hanson LL, Westerlund H, Vahtera J. Body mass index as a predictor of healthy and disease-free life expectancy between ages 50 and 75: a multicohort study. Int J Obesity (Lond) 2017
Stenholm S, Head J, Kivimäki M, Kawachi I, Aalto V, Zins M, Goldberg M, Zaninotto P, Magnuson Hanson L, Westerlund H, Vahtera J. Smoking, physical inactivity and obesity as predictors of healthy and disease-free life expectancy between ages 50 and 75: a multicohort study. Int J Epidemiology 2016
Stenholm S, Pulakka A, Kawachi I, Oksanen T, Halonen JI, Aalto V, Kivimäki M, Vahtera J. Changes in physical activity during transition to retirement: a cohort study. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act. 2016
Stenholm S, Kivimäki M, Jylhä M, Kawachi I, Westerlund H, Pentti J, Goldberg M, Zins M, Vahtera J. Trajectories of self-rated health in the last 15 years of life by cause of death. Eur J Epidemiology 2016
Stenholm S, Koster A, Patel K, Valkeinen H, Bandinelli S, Guralnik JM, Ferrucci L. Association of physical activity history with physical function and mortality in old age. J Gerontol Med Sci 2016
Stenholm S, Westerlund H, Head J, Hyde M, Kawachi I, Pentti J, Kivimäki M, Vahtera J. Co-morbidity and functional trajectories from midlife to old age: The Health and Retirement Study. J Gerontol Med Sci 2015
Stenholm S, Salo P, Hyde M, Pentti J, Head J, Westerlund H, Kivimäki M, Vahtera J. Age-related trajectories of physical functioning at work and retirement – the role of sociodemographic factors, lifestyle and disease. J Epidemiol Community Health 2014